darkroom
Apus
Two people meet on a moonlit night, each carries a secret. Perhaps a secret shared. An improvised performance and moving image work, performed by Carolyn Eccles and Julian Renlong-Wong. Music performed by the Griffyn Ensemble and composed by Urmas Sisask.
Originally commissioned by composer and artistic director Michael Sollis as part of his 2021 CAPO-funded Southern Sky project, in November 2026 APUS will return to the night sky as part of the SUPERIMPOSITION Festival at the Linden Observatory.
Reconsidered for this remarkable place of astronomical observation, and heritage, the work brings image, movement, landscape and celestial imagination into dialogue, allowing the observatory itself to become an active presence within the unfolding work.
darkroom is the collective practice of Blue-Mountains based artists Carolyn Eccles and Sean O’Keeffe.
The Bylong Valley project
The Glenn Meringuey project
Bundanon Residency - 2017
The Joan QLab residency, 2017
Winners, Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize photography section, 2017
The Caroline Collitts project
Opening Performance as part of group show, Explorer’s Narrative of Site, Woodford Academy, 2017
cast
In 2025 darkroom spent 2 weeks in residency in Ngawal, Nepal undergoing the first creative development of their new performance work, cast.
